Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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A Utopian Vision for Metabolic Cities: The Future of Farmscraping in New York City
(2022-07-07)This thesis turns to radical architecture for drawing visionary solutions to future problems. An issue that faces cities in the not-so-distant future is access to food. Compared to other industries, farming lags in ... -
UV LED TECHNOLOGY FOR DRINKING WATER POU APPLICATIONS AND BIOFILM DISINFECTION
(2021-03-11)UV LEDs are a promising technology for the water sector because of their small size and low energy consumption, which makes them ideal for POU applications. UV LED POU device testing is required to verify their effectiveness ... -
Vaccine Approval Effect on Firms in Socially Responsible and Conventional Funds During the Covid-19 Pandemic
(2023-04-11)This research investigates the effects of vaccine approval on socially responsible and conventional funds in the United States and Canada. The study analyzes the daily total returns of the constituents of the Jantzi Social ... -
Validating a Meditation-based Mind Wandering BCI: A Pilot Study
(2023-09-06)Brain-computer interfaces (BCI) have become a burgeoning field of research as computers become embedded in everyday life. Electroencephalography (EEG) is the preferred brain measurement device used in BCIs, though research- ... -
Validation in Risk and Hazard Analysis in Safety-Critical Industries: Understanding Current Practices to Develop a Framework for STPA Validation
(2023-05-30)In recent years, scholars have increasingly delved into the theoretical foundations and issues surrounding risk and safety science. However, validation has not received much explicit attention although it has been highlighted ... -
Validation of a Commercial Three-Dimensional Whole-Body Laser Scanner for the Collection of Obesity-Related Measurements
(2014-09-03)This study aimed to develop a systematic method of comparing manual and digital anthropometric measurements and validate a commercial three-dimensional laser scanner, for measurements related to obesity. Firstly, novel ... -
VALIDATION OF THE PATIENT ACTIVATION MEASURE (PAM-13) AMONG ADULTS WITH CARDIAC CONDITIONS IN SINGAPORE: A MIXED METHODS STUDY
(2016-04-08)The purpose of this study was to validate the Patient Activation Measure (PAM-13) among English-speaking cardiac patients in Singapore. A concurrent mixed methods design was utilized. The quantitative approach was conducted ... -
VALORIZING INDUSTRIAL BYPRODUCTS - PAPER MILL PULP SLUDGE AND DRYWALL THROUGH THE DEVELOPMENT OF HIGH-QUALITY GROWTH MEDIUM
(2020-05-13)The human population continues to rise and projections suggest there will be nine billion people on earth by 2050. Food consumption patterns continue to indicate there will be a need to significantly increase agricultural ... -
Valuative Capacity of Compact Subsets of Ultrametric Spaces
(2019-08-29)A p−ordering is a combinatorial concept introduced by Bhargava to generalize the factorial function. K. Johnson noticed in his paper “p−orderings, Fekete n−tuples and capacity in ultrametric spaces” that p−orderings also ... -
The Value and Ownership of Art in a Digital Age
(2015)This thesis examines three key research questions, including: How are artists making art and making a living? How do they use the Internet in their artistic practice? How do they use and understand copyright? These questions ... -
VALUE OF INFORMATION IN CONDITION BASED MAINTENANCE USING PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS: A COMPARISON OF MAINTENANCE STRATEGIES
(2016-04-29)In this study, a comparison of equipment maintenance strategies’ cost behaviour is performed under different assumptions regarding equipment failure behaviour, availability of condition monitoring data, and its accuracy. ... -
Value Struggles: The Politics of Production in Rural Cuba
(2024-04-12)This dissertation examines the politics of value in contemporary rural Cuba, focusing on the agricultural region south of Havana. The Soviet bloc’s collapse in the 1990s and Cuba’s need to reconnect to the neoliberal global ... -
Vancouver's Indigenous Identity: Representing a Narrative
(2017-04-07)As an estranged site that defines a gap along the recreational and accessible water’s edge in Vancouver, it is odd to fi find prime real estate left desolate. With research, the issue of the site was evidently much grander ... -
Vancouver’s Chinatown: Rebuilding a Community’s Identity
(2019-08-28)In the competition for space within developing cities, key cultural and social components within working class ethnic neighbourhoods are often found being transformed by outside market forces. In the newest iteration of ... -
VARIABILITY OF CIRCULATION AND SEA ICE OVER THE EASTERN CANADIAN SHELF AND IN THE ADJACENT NORTHERN NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN
(2021-07-14)A significant gap remains in our understanding regarding the temporal-spatial variability of hydrodynamics over the eastern Canadian shelf (ECS) and in the adjacent northern North Atlantic Ocean (nNA). This thesis is a ... -
Variable Rate Fertilization in Wild Blueberry Fields to Improve Crop Productivity and Reduce Environmental Impacts
(2012-04-10)Two wild blueberry fields were selected to evaluate the impact of variable rate (VR) fertilization on crop productivity, surface and subsurface water quality. Management zones were delineated based on slope variability, ... -
VARIABLE SELECTION BY SUBSAMPLING RANKING FORWARD SELECTION (SURF)
(2023-12-07)Traditional statistical methods face lots of challenges in model fitting, variable selection, and model diagnosis when analysing high-dimensional data. LASSO is one of the most popular regularised approaches for high-dimensional ... -
Variation in the behavior of humpback whales: A study of individuals.
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Variation in the prey field of North Atlantic right whales (Eubalaena glacialis) in Roseway Basin
(2012-08-15)‘Critical Habitat’ is the habitat required to close the life history of an endangered species and is a fundamental requirement for species recovery for two reasons; the role of habitat in population limitation and viability ... -
Variations in the abundance and distribution of mesopelagic fishes in the Slope Sea off Atlantic Canada.
(Dalhousie University, 1996)
